[arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

[Loui Chang]

On Mon 28 Jun 2010 10:03 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote:
> On Jun 28, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Depends on what you define as Arch.
> >I've heard that Arch is what you make of it. Hehe.
> >I don't know if you could disqualify it from a difference of one file.
>
> For me, part of it is that bash is used pretty ubiquitously as the
> configuration and scripting language of choice. Changing that to
> posix sh in one of the main config files would be a big shift.

Ah. For me Arch is much more than bash configs or scripts.
They could all become POSIX compatible and I'd still see it as Arch.

If Arch started to require python, or more I might start to see it
differently - it would be harder to maintain a slimmer system.